News

K so ive been lazy with the posting since theres not much going on, so I wait for it to build up. But I decided to make one just for Mrs. Bee. :)

Im getting a biomodulator to help with the pain and healing. This this is pretty amazing and it works on every kind of pain or physical ailment you could ever think of. Its super expensive, but thanks to my godfather who lent us the money for it I can get it soon!

Ive been going to the oval and spinning with one leg while resting the other on one of those big inflatable balls. Did 40 min the other day and a little core.


Jim got me some of these Boathouse Farms smoothies and I finally got around to trying one, it was berry. I really liked it! Theres 2 more in there, and I feel like ive tried the green one from this brand once and I hated it but this berry one is awesome.

My sucker fish Charles died today :( Hes been doing this thing lately where hed flip upside down on the surface and suck air and it was really weird. We all thought he was dead like 20 times before this. But this time it was for real...I guess he was sick after all. I got charles a few months ago from Nichole Miller when her tank broke and she needed a home for him. She told me to tell everyone that this fish was the secret to my skating season, so it was kinda symbolic when he died. At least Francois Louis (my beta who reluctantly shared the tank with him) is happy now.

I just started watching Alias which Nichole let me borrow on the portable DVD player she bought me, lol. Both of which are amazing. I was hooked from the first 5 minutes even though I was getting distracted by how cool the player was hahaha.

Gabi visited for halloween and left today. We had a party at KDs house. It was kinda weird since a lot of people were in Canada for the world cups but I guess everyone that mattered was there. I dressed as Nancy Kerrigan. Genius. I know. It was Mikeys idea lol. I won funniest costume award. My favorite was Brittanys lumberjack costume, it was so her!!




I drew these pics of my roommates Mikey and Jun a few weeks ago. This is really what they look like.




Also I might have wrote about this last year, but at nationals me gabi and andrea met this eccentric photographer on the plane and he wanted to shoot speedskaters. So we went over to his studio and got a free photoshoot! Finally got the pics. Theyre pretty epic. I look kinda chunky in these though, ive lost 16 lbs since then. 11 from the injury and 5 from workouts, haha! There are a lot so heres the link.

Thats all I can think of for now, good luck to my teammates in Cleveland for Am Cup 2!

Recovery

Not drugged up this time I dont think. Heres what ive been doing...

Jen from Center state was staying with us for the USS board meeting this weekend and she washed my hair for me! :) It was getting real nasty. And yesterday my mom got lost for 4 hours so no one was home to make me lunch. Thats when I put up a status on facebook asking someone to help the hungry cripple which is pathetic and funny at the same time..lol. Simon came over with subway and saved me from starvation, thanks Simon!
KD and Andrea stopped by with a bunch of toys and I made playdoh replicas of Gumbi and Pokey.






Ahhh boredom.

I also made caricatures of Mikey and Jun which I dont have pics of but theyre pretty cool.
Ive been seeing this acupuncture lady thats been sticking needles in me and doing some sound and laser therapy on my leg, thats been interesting. Im also seeing Dr. Heiden. We havent started anything yet but im thinking this week ill be doing something. Cant wait to get on my feet again, im so sick of laying down. My legs are super restless, even the hurt one but I cant move it if I try. I got some meds for it since it was making it so I couldnt sleep, but they made me feel horrible.
I still cant feel the bottom of my foot but its tingling a lot, which is good. The tingling is starting to hurt a lot which is funny...the cut area doesnt hurt at all but my foot, the innocent bystander does...

Alsoooo... If you want to see the video of my crash, Tony Chung posted it on youtube. Be warned though, I hear its a little graphic.
(I cant get the link to work so copy paste this)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7YElndU8lI
I havent watched it yet though, Im gonna wait a little bit. So dont spoil the ending for me :P

Accident

First off im on some pretty strong pain killers now so some of this might not make sense, haha.

As you may know I was in Milwaukee skating at Am Cup 1 this past weekend. I havent been skating very well ever since last season. So I didnt really want to skate it but I went anyway. I has some really good races and surprised myself. Not so much the 1500, I hate the 1500 sooo muchhh. But the 500 heat and the one 1000 I raced went way better than I expected. I did good enough in the 1000 heat to make the C final. The thing is I almost didnt skate the 1000 heat because I fell in the 500 final and got checked out for a concussion. They cleared me to keep skating though. Now I wish I did have one so I wouldnt have skated the 1000 final but what can I do. Anyway, What im pretty sure happened is that I was leading and a girl was trying to pass on the inside. Bumps me, I lost balance and took another girl with me into the "pads". (They may as well have not put any pads up the sucked so bad). The other girls blades were up when she fell and my leg went down on it. Cut me right behind and above the knee I believe. Havent been able to see it yet though. From what I remember I hit the pads and felt blood gushing from my leg and I screamed. I just lied there and tried to cover my head with my hands so I couldnt see my leg since I knew it was bad. There were swarms of people around me trying to stop the bleeding and I got really cold and was shivering a lot. When I got to the ER They cut all my clothes and my skinsuit off and covered me with heated blankets, I think my temperature was around 95 or 96. I didnt realize until then that I crashed with another skater, Katy Ralston. She was also brought to the ER because they thought she might have had neck or spinal injury, which turned out to be a concussion. So she was released and I went into surgery that night. They repaired 2 cut tendons, some muscle, the vein I cut which a couple millimeters deeper would have been an artery, and the worst part was when they told me I cut 95% of one of the nerves behind my knee. The dr said 18-28 months recovery because of that nerve. the bottom of my foot is numb and I cant move it in certain directions. He said I wouldnt skate again and id be lucky to walk withought a limp, but im not sure I believe him. I know of about 3 skaters whove had nerve damage that have recovered way sooner and are on the ice again.
So itll be a long recovery but I think ill recover. I have to give myself shots everyday to prevent clotting which really sucks. I can hardly get to the bathroom on crutches and it hurts the leg to sit upright so sitting on the toilet is another sucky experience. Then I sit on the couch all day. With nothing to do. So, visitors are welcome. hint hint. lol

FIRE!!!

Go here for more awesome pics of the fire http://www.flickr.com/photos/kdumont/sets/72157624993362092/with/5006499983/?ref=nf

Im alive!

Ive been lazy about posting but I have all day off today so I have no excuse now.
So Mike Kooreman is our coach now, he was our coach before Jun now hes back. His coaching style is a complete 360 from what Jun was like, I dont think any of us are used to the niceness yet, haha! We miss Jun no matter how strict he was. Mike is great too though. The other day we had to do 12x 200m low walks. after the 3rd one I was dead and when I got to my 9th one everyone else had already finished and left but Mike stayed there and even did the last one with me to make sure I finished it and didnt wuss out, LOL.

Being badass at practice.



What else....I went back home last month which was fun. Saw my friends, went to our camp in the ADKs, ate real maple syrup, drank real coffee, hung out at Wegmans, good stuff.

Went to the Aledphi for coffee and maple juleps lol




This is my first ever attempt at making a campfire by myself, not too shabby.



Clarissa and me!

Katy crashed in practice the other day and her face is all ice burned and she sprained her ankle which I felt compelled to take a picture of cuz it looks like a rainbow...lol



Gabi is moving back to Cali to go to school and Mikey will be Juns and my new roomie.

I have just experimented with dinner tonight, which is in the oven as I type. I think I just made this recipe up... Its broccoli (which I just learned you can cook in the microwave), cream of celery soup, milk, garlic salt, and pepper all mixed together in a bread pan topped with italian bread crumbs. Itll be done in a few min, I hope it tastes good!

My punishment for skipping a workout

So Tuesday I decided to skip the afternoon ice session and go climb Mt. Olympus with the long track team. I needed a little change, I was getting sick of ice 2x a day, and it was so nice out. So I parked my car at the trailhead and we went for a hike. It was a good hike, im feeling great, relaxed, came back to the car and my window was smashed and my purse (which id hidden under a jacket) and my university parking pass were gone. In the purse was my favorite chococat wallet with all my cards (I dont carry cash anymore after the last time my wallet got stolen) and checkbook, my ipod (which I got for free so not too devastating, just annoying..) and my passport. Which sucks cuz now I have to go spend 100 bucks on a new one. I cancelled all my cards and the dude who stole it tried to spend 40 bucks at a laundromat and then get gas...weird... I was so pissed. If I ever catch who did it ill slit their throats with the glass they broke. Teach m to mess with me ever again... I dont care if growing up, their mom was a druggie and their dad beat them. Thats a personal issue..they need not make my life more complicated, I have enough crap to deal with.

Anyway....Im going home july 19-29!! yaaay. I look forward to hanging out with my friends (which I dont get to do here...), drinking good coffee (which does not exist here), and joining the RSST and the derby girls at some cobbs hill workouts!!

Here are the pictures from my awesome hiking day.

My Favorite Youtube Vids

just have to show these to you...I almost died loling they were so funny!

First one is "dramatic cat"



Second is the sneezing baby panda...



Third is the stalking ninja cat!

Storm

I was outside for a good hour last night watching the most amazing storm ever. It started with the most perfect anvil cloud ive ever seen hovering over the mountains, then some virga over the valley. Then the coolest brightest rainbows! There were 3 all at once, but my crappy cell camera didnt catch the 3rd one. Then the lightning started. All of this happened at once as the sun was setting, so there was an orange glow on the mountains.

Heres some video I took of the valley and the lightning.

That wasnt so bad...

Ok, I survived the hard week. It was actually easier than I thought itd be. Either I overestimated it or I just became used to the pain, lol. We go on bike rides almost every saturday, and yesterday we rode Big Cottonwood Canyon. Its about 14 miles to the top, 4584 feet of vertical gain. As soon as I woke up and saw the evil black clouds of doom hovering over the mountains I knew it wasnt gonna be a good ride, haha. It was freezing outside. About a quarter of the way up it started raining on us, then soon after it sleeted then slowed. Im proud of myself though, I finished with the guys in about 1 hour and 25-30 minutes. Apparently Jae Su said whoever doesnt keep up will get attacked by wolves and bears, which is kinda funny....because Gabi, who was towards the back almost got attacked by a moose on the way up HAHA! Anyways, it was too cold and we were too tired to ride down so we piled our bikes into Eddys truck and rode down in Jae's van with the heat blasted. There were a couple insane ones who decided to ride down, it was the first time on this ride for one of them so he obviously didnt know any better, haha.

I just hope next week we dont do Little Cottonwood, dont let the name or distance deceive you. Its only 8 miles to the top but the elevation is 3472 feet, a 9.2% grade... ever heard of the Alp D' Huez climb in the Tour de France? I read that Little Cottonwood is pretty much the same as that but without the switchbacks...Snowbird and Alta ski resorts are at the top, about a mile apart. I remember last year, getting to Snowbird and almost passing out I was so dead. After a short break though, I did make it to Alta (which is at the top).

Bring on the easy week.

PS: My moms going to VT to visit my grandma, aunt and uncle. Kinda jealous, I havent seen them in a while and I love Burlington (especially Dobra Tea which has the best tea ever). But I think Ill be going home for a week in July sometime and to the ADKs, so I might get to visit then!

PPS: We might get our new coach this week, Im excited but not, because if the coach comes that means we have to stop training with the national team! Oh well, if its who I think it will be, well have an awesome coach.

New place, new pics!

Me Gabi and Jun are all moved into our new townhouse! Its only 5 min from the oval and its really nice. Ill take some pics later and post them. Right now we have no furniture in the livingroom except a small Ikea coffee table and a tiny chair Gabi had, it looks kinda funny cuz the room is so big, haha. I want to fill it with cool retro stuff from garage sales and thrift shops, give it a coffee shop feel. Then I need to get a coffee maker to give it the coffee shop smell too :)

We just finished a medium training week, which is the hardest Ive ever experienced. Next week is a hard week...if there are no more posts after this one, assume the worst, lol.

A few weeks ago I went hiking in north salt lake with Nick, 4 hrs, i forget how many vert feet, but there were nice views of the city and the snow covered Uintas to the east.






About a week after that, Gabi, Mikey, Britt, Andrea and me went to a Bees game. They won and we took our tickets to Sonic to get FREE SLUSHIES! Yessss.






This is the Aerobar Andrea got me for my birthday, they sell these in Utah now!!

Update.

Soooo its been kinda crazy lately. Ill list off the new unusual occurrences:

- I got a job at bath and body with Gabi
- Jun came back from korea
- Gabi me and Jun are in the process of looking for an apartment
- Jun is now the assistant national team coach
- We are still waiting to see who our new coach will be but we have a couple hunches...
- Since we dont have a coach yet we get to train with the national team!
- Since half our team (mainly the girls) are now on the national team along with our coach, training doesnt seem any different, lol
- Speaking of training we started up again a few days ago. We are in pain. We cant walk normally on stairs anymore. :P
- I went to Ikea a few weeks ago and got some really cool cacti.
- I like cherry cupcakes
- Were going for a bike ride saturday and im super pumped.
- Im making a mix 90's music CD as we speak.
- I just went to get my hair trimmed and she gave me this really cool braid:

- Jun has not once since hes been back "said" I was fat. But Im pretty sure thats what pinching my arm fat and making a sound of disgust means. But he hasnt SAID it!! lol.
- Today was our first day on the ice and Jae-su is very helpful and didnt make us feel bad about our skating at all. Jun on the other hand was amused and laughed at our pathetic failure the whole time. Hahaha!
- The Sharks are in the playoffs so that means whenever a game is on dont try to call me, I wont be able to hear you over the screaming and chaos Gabi will be creating.
- My parents sent me the old school nintendo!!!! I now feel complete. :D

AND LAST...

-THE BACKSTREET BOYS ARE COMING TO SALT LAKE JUNE 23RD!!!!!! Whos going with me?!